Computer Weekly Social Media AwardsWe’re thrilled to announce that our WPD Smart Grids animation has been shortlisted for “Best IT video of the year” in the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011! Computer Weekly is one of the largest and most widely circulated computer and IT magazines in the UK: to be shortlisted for this award is superb news, and we’re hugely proud of everyone in the team who worked on the project.

We’re already hugely proud to have won the Socitm 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence for our collaboration with the London Borough of Redbridge on the Ilford Blueprint project, since when we’ve also Local Government Supplier of the Year and been listed as “best practice” by the Royal Town Planners Institute.

If you’d like to help us add another trophy to our mantelpiece, you can vote now at the Computer Weekly website – please note that voting finishes on November 25th.


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Meeting the UK’s bold target of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 will require widespread changes in the way that we generate and use electricity. Milton Keynes – and Virtual Viewing – is at the forefront of some of these exciting and innovative changes.

Through the MKSmart2020 partnership, we are working with E.ON Central Networks, the University Centre Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Partnership, Milton Keynes Council, the Open University and Cranfield University to help Milton Keynes through an evolution of the way that we all use energy. This will include SmartGrids, electric vehicles, ground heat sources, intelligent appliances, and integrated energy generation systems (wind farms, solar panels, advanced recycling plants) – and all of this work is being undertaken in conjunction with Milton Keynes Council’s Low Carbon Living Programme. (more…)

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